Red Hat has unveiled Red Hat Developer Lightspeed, a suite of generative AI tools designed to streamline developer workflows through intelligent, context-aware assistance. Integrated directly into Red Hat Developer Hub and the Migration Toolkit for Applications (MTA), the new offering aims to boost developer productivity and reduce context switching across the software development lifecycle.

As enterprises shift toward domain-specific AI assistants, Red Hat’s latest portfolio emphasizes trustworthy, reliable, and contextually relevant AI assistance. The tools are included within the Red Hat Advanced Developer Suite subscription, supporting teams looking to modernize and migrate applications faster while maintaining compliance and operational standards.

AI Assistance for Developers

Developer Lightspeed for Red Hat Developer Hub serves as a virtual assistant to streamline non-coding tasks—helping developers brainstorm architecture approaches, create documentation, generate test plans, and troubleshoot issues through a chat-style interface. It supports a “bring your own model” approach, allowing enterprises to integrate preferred public or self-hosted LLMs for greater flexibility and data control.

Meanwhile, Developer Lightspeed for MTA automates source code refactoring within IDEs. The assistant intelligently identifies and resolves migration issues, learning from each successful application migration to deliver increasingly accurate code recommendations. The result: faster cloud-native modernization with reduced engineering overhead.

Automating the Replatforming Process

Complementing Lightspeed, Migration Toolkit for Applications 8 (MTA 8) introduces automation for replatforming applications to Red Hat OpenShift, starting with Cloud Foundry-to-OpenShift migration paths. By automating deployment artifact generation, MTA 8 reduces manual errors and accelerates ROI on modernization projects.

Together, Lightspeed and MTA 8 represent a comprehensive modernization framework—merging AI-assisted refactoring with automated replatforming to help enterprises speed transformation and unlock cloud-native scalability.

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